Hi, Has anyone had any experience in writing a course for either IOSH or ROSPA accreditation. If so how did you find it ? Was the criteria sensibly obtainable ? Or did you find the hoops to complex or demanding to jump through ?? I am writing various Induction courses for my company and I am looking into getting the courses accredited just for our own company's use, but I am worried as to how difficult it is to achieve. I would like to think I write informative and interesting courses I hold my PTTLLS but I do not do training as a sole profession so I am concerned that it may be a step too big to try? Any experience you have had regarding this would be gratefully received.

I wrote a two day management training course for my organisation. They had traditionally delivered Managing Safely to all senior managers, but it was beneath their intellectual level and at four days was "tedious" to say the least. The new course was based upon the Directing Safety syllabus, but with lots of case studies etc as extras. I contacted IOSH at the outset, who provided some quite comprehensive guidance on writing a course, and what they were looking for. After developing the course, I submitted it for accreditation and received a detailed analysis showing the few minor areas for improvement. The final approval and licence came through after the amendments had been made. If you have done PTTLLS, then I would not anticipate any problems with you developing a course. The two contacts in IOSH were really helpful, although they do sometimes have a backlog of work so the process may take a month or two. Hope this helps, Iain